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TIL The Z-series Spacesuits look a LOT like Buzz Lightyear

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445J TIL Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a pistol. The bullet did not cause enough damage to kill him so he walked back to the inn where doctors treated him. VanGogh finally died of an infection 29 hours after shooting himself.
QN09a TIL In 1988, President Reagan set ambitious goals for a space comeback by committing to a manned flight to Mars around the year 2000 and to continue exploration of the moon
d8Wyj TIL expensive weddings are directly linked to higher divorce rates.
780Ep TIL: That Larry Love, writer of the theme music to The Sopranos, has never actually watched The Sopranos.
QJQjX TIL Sergei Preminin was a Russian sailor who sacrificed his life to prevent a reactor meltdown aboard the Soviet submarine K-219. The submarine was off the coast of Bermuda and a reactor meltdown would have spread radiation across the entire North American Atlantic coast.